The French seldom neglect their historically significant artists, which makes it all the more curious that the first major exhibition of the work of Jean Metzinger (1883-1956) should have been orga… ...

As we learn in the show, Robert Delaunay — arguably the father of Orphism — was a close friend of the painter, critic and theorist Jean Metzinger who lent intellectual heft to Orphism’s genesis (he ...

Thus, we are introduced to the so-called "Salon Cubists", such as Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, whose submissions to the annual salons in Paris sparked a firestorm of mockery in the press.

“There is nothing real outside of us,” wrote the artists Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger in On Cubism.

If you had noticed that we didn’t mention Jean Metzinger before, and felt that leaving him out of the list, and not even mentioning him was wrong, considering that in the beginnings of Cubism ...

French artist Jean Metzinger was originally influenced by neo-Impressionists Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. His style changed throughout his lifetime, beginning with Divisionist and Fauvist ...

Although he co-wrote the first manifesto on Cubism, Jean Metzinger has had less market attention than many of his contemporaries and the sale of this painting may make a record for the French artist.

By contrast, paintings by Jean Metzinger, Marsden Hartley, David Bomberg, Natalia Goncharova, and the sculpture of Alexander Archipenko prove confusing in their inclusion, and the same can be said ...

Four years earlier, in 1912, Gleizes and Metzinger collaborated on a theoretical essay about Cubism, which, as their painting makes clear, they didn’t understand. Despite being conventional artists ...

Henri Le Fauconnier’s ‘Mountaineers Attacked by Bears’ revealed that the movement could go beyond traditional subjects like still lifes and focus on the new themes of modern urban society.

From 1911, just a few years after the creation of Cubism by the Braque-Picasso Cordée, a new generation of Cubists arrived on the scene. Jean Metzinger had already been exhibiting at the Salons des ...